The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dogSewell, Alfred Joseph
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The Dog's Medical Dictionary: An encyclopædia of the diseases, their diagnosis & treatment, and the physical development of the dog
Sewell, Alfred Joseph
Dogs -- Diseases -- Dictionaries
_Symptoms_: New growths, causing swelling and enlargement of the part of
the body in which they appear. A tumour, unlike an abscess, generally
forms slowly, and is at first usually not painful, and moreover, is not
accompanied during the early stages by a rise of temperature as is found
when an abscess is forming.
_Treatment_: It is seldom that a tumour of any kind can be reduced or
removed except by a surgical operation. I have sometimes thought that
gently rubbing the tumours formed on the milk glands, especially when
small, daily for some time with iodine vasogen has checked their growth.
Directly a tumour has been diagnosed, unless the patient is a very old
one, it is best to have it removed before it has developed into a large
growth; the operation, unless the tumour is situated in the neck, is
a simple one, and the wound, with ordinary aseptic precautions, heals
in seven or eight days. Of course there are some exceptions, as, when
the tumour is a cancer or some other malignant growth, it is not always
advisable to sew the wound up after operation, but then of course it
takes much longer to heal.
=Ulcers=:
_Symptoms_: These are unhealthy wounds or sores left after decay or
destruction of some superficial parts of the body.
_Treatment_: Keep them clean by sponging two or three times a day with
Pearson’s fluid—one teaspoonful to half a pint of water. For a day or
two apply either hot linseed-meal poultice dusted over with powdered
charcoal, or a piece of lint soaked in a saturated solution of boracic
acid, placed over the wound and covered with oil-silk, then bandage. When
the wound looks cleaner, healthier, and discharges less, and there are
signs of healing by the formation of new skin around the edges of the
wound, simply cover it over with some carbolic gauze squeezed out in a
solution of boracic acid, and apply a bandage.
When an ulcer is healing very slowly, lint dipped in the following lotion
and applied to the ulcer stimulates healthy action and healing:—
_Recipe: The Lotion_:
Tincture Calendula, 3 drachms.
Sulphate of Zinc, 1 scruple.
Water to 6 ounces.
Mix.
Apply as directed two or three times a day. In some cases dusting the
wound over with a powder made with one part of iodoform mixed with eight
parts of boracic acid. Amyloform is also another good healing powder.
It is necessary to keep the dog’s tongue away from it, otherwise he is
continually licking off the new skin as it forms.
=Uræmia=:
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